tracking down extraction

Alan Batie alan at batie.org
Sat Jun 14 11:02:10 PDT 2008


Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> N.B.: unzip and bzip2 are different programs handling different 
> compression algorithms; they are not interchangeable.

Doh!  I even wondered about that a bit, but didn't look as close as I 
ought to have at that if statement.

> I can't at the moment remember what the arguments against this 
> separation were. It would take more disk space temporarily to store e.g. 
> the decompressed tar archive while its contents are extracted, but that 
> shouldn't be a big deal. Any other reasons we wouldn't want this?

One more piece of clutter to clean up, but I suppose you've got plenty 
of that already inherently in the process, what's one more...
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